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6.
Calls upon Member States to consider providing additional reporting and
analysis on women-specific data relating to the use of illicit substances and access
to appropriate treatment services;
Community capacity-building
7.
Encourages all States to support community capacity-building through
the development and dissemination of information on drug abuse trends and to
provide training and encourage the formation of community networks at all levels,
with a view to drawing on best practices and sharing experience;
Demand reduction
8.
Urges all Member States to implement the Action Plan5 for the
Implementation of the Declaration on the Guiding Principles of Drug Demand
Reduction6 and to strengthen their national efforts to counter the abuse of illicit
drugs in their population, in particular among children and young people;
Calls upon States and organizations with expertise in community
9.
capacity-building to provide, as needed, access to treatment, health care and social
services for drug users, in particular those living with HIV/AIDS and other bloodborne diseases, and to extend support to States requiring such expertise, consistent
with the international drug control treaties;
10. Urges States, in order to achieve a significant and measurable reduction
of drug abuse by 2008:
(a) To further implement comprehensive demand reduction policies and
programmes, including research, covering all the drugs under international control,
in order to raise public awareness of the drug problem, paying special attention to
prevention and education and providing, especially to young people and others at
risk, information on developing life skills, making healthy choices and engaging in
drug-free activities;
(b) To further develop and implement comprehensive demand reduction
policies, including risk reduction activities, under the supervision of competent
health authorities, that are in line with sound medical practice and the international
drug control treaties and that reduce the adverse health and social consequences of
drug abuse, and to provide a wide range of comprehensive services for the
treatment, rehabilitation and social reintegration of drug abusers, with appropriate
resources being devoted to such services, since social exclusion constitutes an
important risk factor for drug abuse;
(c) To enhance early intervention programmes that dissuade children and
young people from using illicit drugs, including, inter alia, polydrug use and the
recreational use of substances such as cannabis and synthetic drugs, especially
amphetamine-type stimulants, and to encourage the active participation of the
younger generation and their families in campaigns against drug abuse;
(d) To consider strengthening and implementing broadly based prevention
and treatment programmes and to ensure that such programmes adequately address
the gender-specific barriers that limit access for young girls and women, taking into
account all attendant circumstances, including social and clinical histories, in the
context of education, the family and the community, as appropriate;
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